The Right to Counsel of Your Choosing
The United States Constitution’s Sixth Amendment guarantees a Defendant’s right to counsel. That right to counsel attaches at the first hearing – Rothgary v. Gillespie – where the Defendant’s liberty...
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The Sixth Amendment affords the Defendant the right to confront witnesses against him or her. This right can be waived. This right has certain exceptions and caveats. But in recent years, following...
View ArticleAntonin Scalia: Good for Defendants?
Antonin Scalia was either loved or reviled as an associate justice. Liberals loathed his seemingly callous disregard for minority rights and social progress. Conservatives loved his embrace of...
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